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February 26, 2008

The Smart Pen: The Past and Future of Pen and Paper

Check out these video demos of the pen that records what you write while recording the audio of the conversation. It also imports both the audio and visual notes into your computer.

Smart Pen uses the Livescribe Paper-Based Computing Platform that turns a spiral notebook into a user interface. The pattern of simple, micro-dots enables a patented dot-positioning
system to precisely track the smartpen’s movement on paper. As a result, anything
you write – words, numbers or drawings – can be stored, recognized, and intelligently
responded to by the Pulse smartpen.

From prehistoric cave walls and charcoal to the modern notebook and fountain
pen, the human need for spontaneous self-expression through drawing and
writing has endured. People have actively used writing tools and paper, in one form or another, for thousands of years.

Livescribe Chief Executive Officer Jim Marggraff introduces a new
solution to this age-old problem and a long-term vision on how
paper-based computing will advance the next chapter in mobile
computing. Livescribe’s intelligent writing system includes an
innovative smartpen and dot paper that together bring traditional paper
to life.

By developing a paper-based platform, Livescribe will
fundamentally change the way people capture, use and share information
with pen and paper, making the possibilities of pen and paper endless.
With Livescribe, people will no longer have to settle – they can have
the best of both the paper and digital worlds.